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This is what the pyramids used to look like. They were covered with polished white limestone and had a peak made of pure gold. (lemmy.nz)

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

A gold top wouldn’t even be visible from the ground on a large polished white pyramid.

The point of pyramids was of religious nature, it was to be closer to the sky and allow dead pharaohs to go in their version of the after life so it's likely that the gold wasn't to be pretty but for a religious something

Also, i wonder if it was a gold alloy and not pure gold

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

You are close but gold is conductive. And souls are capable of traveling through such conduits. Especially gold. It is a direct conduit into the sky where they can go back to doppelpopulous to worship Queen doppelpopolis of the doppelgangers.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

Why not both?

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If it was for religious reasons they would definitely use pure gold

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Just looked on wikipedia and they say

"... and were sometimes covered with plates of copper, gold or electrum." (electrum is an alloy of gold and silver IIRC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion Which makes a lot of sense, gold was and is very expensive

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

"Plates of" especially makes sense. And you do recall correctly, electrum is a natural alloy, which means they wouldn't have had to create it from scratch.